Re: fetchmail works -- but so does sendmail

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From: Paul Black
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 00:00

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philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt) wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have experience downloading email from the demon POP3
> mailserver?
> 
> When I do it, using fetchmail, its does download email; however
> unfortunately sendmail is running as well and some of the messages get
> downloaded by SMTP -- Demon recognises this and sends an email telling
> me.
> 
> I've tried not running sendmail, but this is no good because it causes
> fetchmail to stop working too (fetchmail tries to deliver its mail to
> sendmail). There's nothing in the Demon section of the fetchmail FAQ,
> either.
> 
> I'm running SuSE6.0, if that's any help.

If SMTP is working, why worry about using POP3?

You will need to prevent sendmail from getting the mail from Demon.
Sendmail can use TCP wrappers to control connections, not done it so
I can't help you. The Linux firewall can be used to prevent connections
from external machines (you are running a firewall, aren't you?).

Paul

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